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Going K1 route is already not the norm. Hell, even going spousal route is not the norm. The norm is to meet someone in your vicinity, plan a wedding for 1+ years, spend 10s of 1000s of $ to hold the event. In our situation, you have to do what time and means allow. Time and money is a huge factor. Nothing wrong with a UPS marriage and worrying about the celebrations later. To OP, you are fine to do this. A marriage cert is a marriage cert. If your relationship is genuine, there will be nothing to worry about. But it would help your case if you do something that includes both side of your families and can document it for AOS purposes. Also, bona fide marriage is not evidence through a typical wedding ceremony, or lack there of, you need to think about everything, normal life, beyond the legalities of marriage.

You can: • Enter the US on a tourist visa or ESTA and marry. But you must then return to France before or at the end of your admittance and then pursue the spousal visa. OR • Have your USC visit France, marry, and then pursue the spousal visa, with you remaining in France (with them as long as their admittance to EU allows). OR • Enter the US as above and get engaged, file I129f (fiancé visa), and return to France before or at the end of your admittance and wait out fiance visa processing. You can't: • Enter the US as above with the intent of marrying AND adjusting status to allow you to stay. • Expect this to be a quick or easy process. You cannot expect to be in the US by May or June. You could maybe expect I129f approval by then, but then you have to apply for the K1. I have heard Paris has long waits.

That's not tourism.

Just be as accurate as you can. For me, some dates I couldn't recall exactly, but I knew the months and years, so I just put the 1st for both start and end dates.

How many hours per week would you be volunteering?

Unless your mother knows exactly what files would come under what category, you may be better off putting individual files in poly pockets and labelling them with the file name, and grouping them under your categories in a folder. I believe at interview, they won't ask for "financial documents" but will be more specific, example "I-123a".

We married at UPS store, no witnesses needed, only notorized by a store employee. But your state may vary. We filed with initial secondary evidence of a few pics of us. After you file, you will be able to upload further evidence via your USCIS account. We have been sporadically uploading what we can, such as pics from marriage party with family, comingling stuff, whatever we can, since filing. But honestly, it can be limited what you have. USCIS understand that you're filing after being here for barely any time, it isn't expected that you will have much. As @TBoneTX said, just file ASAP, worry about evidence later. Work on getting state ID/driving license next, although you may not be able to do this before getting your EAD. Some of us, including myself, have had trouble getting things before EAD.

If you submit the DS-160, the passport number will be locked in. You can't schedule the interview before paying the fee. You can just update it at interview, bringing both new and old passports.

Yeah, everyone says to ignore the estimate. Biometrics come quick, EAD can be quick too, but then you are left hanging. Really no saying how long it will take. You'll probably experience the ETA go up too. Mine went from 18 to 32. It may also check off the interview after biometrics, implying it isn't needed, but again, people advise to ignore this as its already been confirmed that all marriage based applications will require interview.

I can't log in to use online services without going through one of two verification methods. Either ID.me or Login.gov (names might be slightly wrong, but they are the only 2 options to log in). I am able to log in and see a dashboard, but can't do anything there without verifying myself with a valid ID through one of those two sites. I have tired this with both to no avail. But my issue isn't with gaining access to SSA online services. My issue is that I can't gain access to everything else needed here like bank account, credit, etc without my SSN being validated. And I can't validate it because it says there's no record to match my info, whether that's on SSA site, ID.me, Login.gov, banks, credit, etc. They all say invalid, but I camt validate because there's no record match. Do you see the vicious cycle I'm in lol? Because SSA says nothing is wrong to them. The info they tell me on the phone is the same as if I was sat at their desk. It's the same computer screen. SSA have told me that they do not "verify" SSNs. When they are generated for a person, they are automatically valid. The verification is requested by third parties for basically every service here. Banks, credit, insurance, etc. This is not an issue with SSA as I have double checked my name, both maiden and married, address, phone number, etc. The post office is just a verification option, as well as doing it online. But even to verify in person, you need to put in your info online, and when I do it says there's no match.

I'm once again here asking if anyone has suggestions or advice regarding an SSN not behaving... Long story short, I have had my SSN updated from maiden to married name and trying to do the usual things like get put on husband's bank account and as an joint user on a credit card. Had problems with both coming back saying invalid or unable to be verified. I left it alone until I got my learner's permit/state ID (AL) as I saw you could verify your SSN online with a DL or ID. But even with that now, the online verification comes back with "no records match the information". I called SSA yesterday to ask if they knew anything, they said everything looks good on their side and said I could try going to a post office to verify in person. You need to start this process online, still, to generate a barcode, but I can't get the barcode because it says there's no record of me and my info. I went to the post office today to ask, but they said they need the barcode. So I'm stuck in a loop! Has anyone experienced this? Know what could be causing it? Is it because my DL is a learners permit (that also says FN on it, which hubby says means foreign). I've also read somewhere that having no credit score/record can cause a problem. So would getting a cc in my own name solve this? Just feel like I'm going to encounter the same issue with them not being able to verify me. I'd also note that our residential address differs from our mailing address, but I've tried both addresses and a combination of them and still no joy. Honestly no idea what to do at this point. We aren't able to comingle much of anything because of this, the most we have is a shared credit card (I have my own card, but it's not a joint account because of this).

Yeah, filed 5 months ago, but I've seen people here who filed around the same time go through it all so much quicker. Maybe it's just luck. I know I'm technically within the average still, but it just makes me feel like something is wrong. Maybe being on VJ so much and reading other people's timelines is skewing my expectations.

Know this is a long shot as I haven't noticed many VJers in AL, but wondering if there is anyone out there who went through AOS here? If there's anyone, what was your timeline? I know I just need to be patient but my case filing is still sitting at 32 months and it's so disheartening considering the accepted average of 6 to 8... Been here since Jan, married in Feb, filed in April, biometrics in May. Sweet nothing since.

Potentially. They will see that it is due to expire and she had a recent refusal, so could think that she is trying to get in before it expires to overstay (not saying that is her plan, only that I can see CBP seeing it that way).

Remember to also request the Subject Access Report to accompany your ACRO. It is a seperate document.